Once all the processes started by the Starter are up and running, and joined the
Cluster (this may take a while depending on your system), the Starter will inform
you where to connect the Cluster from a Browser, shell or your program.

For a full list of options of the Starter please refer to this
section.

Using the ArangoDB Starter in Docker

The Starter can also be used to launch Clusters based on Docker containers:

If you use an ArangoDB version of 3.4 or above and use the Enterprise
Edition Docker image, you have to set the license key in an environment
variable by adding this option to the above docker command:

Then replace <thekey> above with the actual license key. The start
will then hand on the license key to the Docker containers it launches
for ArangoDB.

TLS verified Docker services

Oftentimes, one needs to harden Docker services using client certificate
and TLS verification. The Docker API allows subsequently only certified access.
As the ArangoDB starter starts the ArangoDB cluster instances using this Docker API,
it is mandatory that the ArangoDB starter is deployed with the proper certificates
handed to it, so that the above command is modified as follows:

Note that the environment variables DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY and DOCKER_CERT_PATH
as well as the additional mountpoint containing the certificate have been added above.
directory. The assignment of DOCKER_CERT_PATH is optional, in which case it
is mandatory that the certificates are stored in $HOME/.docker. So
the command would then be as follows

Under the Hood

The first arangodb you ran will become the master of your Starter
setup, the other arangodb instances will become the slaves of your Starter
setup. Please do not confuse the terms master and slave above with the master/slave
technology of ArangoDB. The terms above refers to the Starter setup.

The Startermaster determines which ArangoDB server processes to launch on which
Starterslave, and how they should communicate.

It will then launch the server processes and monitor them. Once it has detected
that the setup is complete you will get the prompt.